The Rutgers Climate Symposium
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
The study of climate change is inherently interdisciplinary, cutting across the physical, ecological and social sciences, as well as policy, business, engineering, law and medicine.
The purpose of this day-long symposium, sponsored by the Climate and Environmental Change Initiative in collaboration with the Initiative on
Climate and Society and the Rutgers Energy Institute, was to bridge departmental and school boundaries. It brought together Rutgers faculty, staff, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students to share and discuss their interests in climate research and to foster community among campuses (New Brunswick, Newark, Camden), as well as Rutgers laboratories and field stations. Symposium participants were
encouraged to prepare and present a poster of their scholarly research and interests. In addition to poster presentations by symposium participants, morning and afternoon keynotes were given by preeminent climate scholars.
Program Committee
Tony Broccoli, Department of Environmental Sciences
Bob Kopp, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences & Rutgers Energy Institute
Robin Leichenko, Department of Geography
Ben Lintner, Department of Environmental Sciences
Rachael Shwom, Department of Human Ecology
Jim Wright, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Agenda and Presentations
Morning Keynote Address
"Human Effects on Hurricanes: Observational Evidence and Projections for the Next Century"
Kerry Emanuel , Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Afternoon Keynote Address
"Climate Change and Global Inequality: Vulnerability, Responsibility, and Action"
J. Timmons Roberts, Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University
Morning Poster Session
| Authors | Title (Abstract & Poster) |
| Mark Barnes (Geography Department) | |
| Mira Berdahl (Department of Environmental Sciences), Alan Robock (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Frank Louis Carle (Department of Entomology) | |
| Allison Marquardt Collow and Mark Miller (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Thomas W. Collow (Department of Environmental Sciences) and Alan Robock (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Margaret Conroy (Ecology and Evolution) | |
| Nicole Del Monaco (student intern, Bioenvironmental Engineering), Christopher C. Obropta, PhD., P.E. (Department of Environmental Sciences), Jessica T.R. Brown, EIT (Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program) | |
| Mathieu Gerbush, David A. Robinson and Daniel Zarrow (Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist) | |
| Corie Hlavaty (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Robert Kopp (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Ken Miller (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Jim Browning (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Ying Reinfelder (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Gregory Mountain (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Brian Slater (Office of Oil and Gas, New York State Museum) | |
| Rebecca Kalenak, Sharon Kinsey, Laura K. Bovitz, Janice McDonnell, Marissa Blodnik, Maggie McCann (All authors are affiliates of Rutgers Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development) | |
| Miller, K.G., Kopp, R.E. (both in Earth and Planetary Sciences), Horton, B.P., Psuty, N., (both in Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Lathrop, R. (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Browning, J.V., Wright, J.D., Kopp, R.E., Sugarman, P.J., Abdul, N., Mortlock, R., Fairbanks, R.G. (all Earth and Planetary Sciences), Horton, B.P., Rosenthal, Y., Woodard, S. (all Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) | |
| M. A. Miller and V.P. Ghate (Environmental Sciences Department, Rutgers University) | |
| Gregory Mountain (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Jean-Noël Proust (CNRS, France) and the IODP Expedition 313 Scientific Party | |
| Samiah Moustafa (Department of Geography, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Asa K. Rennermalm (Department of Geography, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Laurence C. Smith (Department of Geography, University of California of Los Angeles) | |
| Daphne Munroe (Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory), Sylvia Brandt (Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst), Carolyn Creed (Department of Human Ecology), Dale Haidvogel (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Eileen Hoffman (Center Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA), John Klinck (Center Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA), Roger Mann (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA), Bonnie McCay (Department of Human Ecology), Janice McDonnell (4-H Extension), Eric N. Powell (Gulf Coast Research Lab., U. S. Mississippi), Cesar Marcelo Viteri Mejia (Univ. Of Massachusetts, Amherst), Peter Zhang (Institute of Marine and Coastal Science) | |
| David A. Robinson and Thomas W. Estilow (Global Snow Lab, Department of Geography) | |
| Alan Robock (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Eric Sinsky (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Imtiaz Rangwala (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) and James R. Miller (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) | Examining elevation sensitive warming in global climate models |
| James D. Wright (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) | |
| Lili Xia (Department of Environmental Sciences) and Alan Robock (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Irene Zager (Dept. of Geography), Laura C. Schneider (Dept. of Geography), John Rogan (Clark University) | |
| Daniel Zarrow, David A. Robinson and Mathieu Gerbush (Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist) |
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| Haiyan Zhang (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) and Clinton J. Andrews (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) |
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Afternoon Poster Session
| Authors | Title (Abstract & Poster) |
| Nicole Abdul (Earth and Planetary Sciences), Richard Mortlock (Earth and Planetary Sciences), James Wright (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and Richard Fairbanks (Columbia University & Earth and Planetary Sciences) | |
| Ross Alter (Department of Environmental Sciences) | |
| Jamie F. Caridad (Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program) and Kenneth W. Able (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) | Climate Change Impacts on Larval Fish Composition in Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey |
| Enrique Curchitser (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Frank Felder (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Y.F. Reinfelder (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), Nina Fefferman (Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources), Joseph Seneca (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Nancy Mantell (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Michael Lahr (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Clint Andrews ((Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Hilary Sigman (Department of Economics), Maria Teresa Alvarez-Martinez (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Haiyan Zhang (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Shankar Chandramowli (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Will Irving (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy), Anthony Broccoli (Department of Environmental Sciences), Dujuan Kang (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), John Wilkin (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Julia Levin (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) and Robert Kopp (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences).National Center for Atmospheric Research: Julio Bacmeister, Peter Lawrence, William Large, Bill Sacks.NOAA-NMFS/SWFC: Francisco Werner. |
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| Anthony DeAngelis (Department of Environmental Sciences)and Anthony Broccoli (Department of Environmental Sciences) |
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| Michael P. Erb (Department of Environmental Sciences), Anthony J. Broccoli (Department of Environmental Sciences), Andrew T. Wittenberg (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University), and Gabriel A. Vecchi (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University) |
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| Debjani Ghatak (Institute Marine and Coastal Sciences), James Miller (Institute Marine and Coastal Sciences) | |
| Serpil Guran (Rutgers EcoComplex), Margaret Brennan-Tonetta (New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station), Thomas Molnar (Department of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology) & David Specca (Rutgers EcoComplex) | |
| Briavel Holcomb (Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) | |
| Michael J. Kennish (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Benjamin M. Fertig (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Gina Petruzzelli (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), and Gregg P. Sakowicz (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) |
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| Richard Lathrop (Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Grant Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis), Lisa Auermuller (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve), Jim Trimble (Grant Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis), John Bognar (Grant Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis) | |
| Melanie McDermott (Human Ecology), Sango Mahanty (Australian National University), Kate Schreckenberg (University of Southhampton) | |
| Janice McDonnell, Laura Bovitz, Carrie Ferraro (Rutgers University, Department of 4-H Youth Development) | |
| R. A. Mortlock, N.A. Abdul, J.D. Wright (all Rutgers Univ., Dept. Earth & Planetary Sci.), L.Cao (Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta Ga.), R.G. Fairbanks (Rutgers Univ., Dept. Earth & Planetary Sci. and Columbia University) | A Coral Based Reconstruction of Atmospheric ?14C through the Mystery Interval (17.5 to 14.5 kyr BP) |
| Matthew Niznik (Department of Environmental Sciences), Benjamin Lintner (Department of Environmental Sciences) |
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| Imtiaz Rangwala (1,2), James R. Miller (1) and Joseph Barsugli (2): (1) Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, (2) Physical Sciences Division, NOAA-ESRL | |
| Grace K. Saba (Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Vincent S. Saba (NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center), William R. Fraser (Polar Oceans Research Group), Sharon E. Stammerjohn (University of Colorado Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research), Hugh W. Ducklow (Marine Biological Laboratory), Douglas G. Martinson (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Deborah K. Steinberg (Virginia Institute of Marine Science), and Oscar Schofield (Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) | |
| Asher Siebert (Department of Geography) and M. Neil Ward (Independent Scholar) | |
| Yong Zhang (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering), Leonard Bielory (Center for Environmental Prediction), Sastry Isukapalli (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute), Lai-yung Ruby Leung (Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA), Panos G. Georgopoulos (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute) |
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